24 FLORA HISTORICA. 



HEPATICA, or NOBLE LIVERWORT. 



Anemone Hepatica. 



Natural Order Multisiliquce. Ranunculacete, Juss. 

 A Genus of the Polyandria Polygyria Class. 



Here blushing Flora paints th' enamell'd ground, 

 "Where frosts have whiten' d all the naked groves. 



Pope. 



This charming little plant, which the florist has 

 brought from the woods and shady mountains of 

 Italy, Germany, and Sweden, to embellish our ver- 

 nal parterres, offers its blossoms, with those of the 

 Snowdrop, to form our earliest garland. Although 

 it is of humble growth, the Hepatica shines as one 

 of the greatest beauties of the spring, and induces 

 us to exclaim with Mason, 



Stay, pitying Time ! prolong their vernal bliss. 



As no flower-garden ought to be without this 

 hardy and early species of Anemone, and few pos- 

 sess it so plentifully as to shew it to full advan- 

 tage, we shall strongly recommend the careful in- 

 crease of this favourite flower of February and 

 March. It loves a strong loamy soil and an eastern 

 aspect, but will flourish in almost any earth and 



